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Centre for Energy, Environment and Health (CEEH) is a
strategic research center.
CEEH is a collaboration between scientists from different research
fields, with the mission to develop a system to support planning of
future energysystems in Denmark, where both direct and indirect
costs related to environment, climate and health are considered. The
centre will work with a number of different realistic scenarios for
the quantity and type of the future energy production and associated
emissions.

CEEH is funded by the Danish
Council for Strategic Research, and run over 5 years from
January 2007. It has finished June 30. 2012, but the work with the
assessment of air pollution is still ongoing.

Air pollution has significant negative impacts on human health and
well-being, which entail sub-stantial economic consequences. We
have developed an integrated model system, EVA (External Valuation
of Air pollution), to assess health-related economic externalities
of air pollution resulting from specific emission sources or
sectors. The EVA system was initially developed to assess
externalities from power production, but in this study it is
extended to evaluate externality costs at the national level from
all major emission sectors. In this report we estimate the impacts
and total externality costs from the main emission sectors in
Denmark, represented by the 10 major SNAP categories. Besides of
these major categories, we assess the externality costs from
international ship traffic in general, since this sector seems to
be very important. Furthermore, we assess the impacts and
externality costs of all emissions from the northern hemisphere
simultaneously to estimate the total health related externality
costs from the air pollution levels in general and these results
are compared to other similar studies. Both for the international
ship traffic and for the general air pollution levels, results are
presented for present and future conditions up to the year 2020.

Article
about CEEH in the EU publication: Public Service Review, Issue
20, p568-570